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Visitors can find us, tour our galleries and studios, and visit the rooftop at 533 Eaton Street.
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$55, $45 mbrs.
Explore astronomy over two nights! Learn what to expect from first hand views of planets, star clusters, nebulae, and (if we’re lucky) a galaxy or two. Astronomer Larry Halstead makes the cosmos more accessible with an wonderfully in-depth, yet easy-to-understand introductory presentation in the theater, followed the next night by stargazing on the roof.
The Roxbury International Film Festival is the largest New England festival dedicated to celebrating films by, for and about people of color around the world. The Studios, in conjunction with the festival, presents two films, Come On In by Daniel Callahan and Paul Laurence Dunbar: Beyond the Mask by Frederick Lewis. Both screenings are followed by talkbacks with the directors.
sponsored by Boston Global Bridge Institute
$18, $13 mbrs.
Callahan’s directorial debut centers on a jaded artist who returns home after not making it in the big city, only to find a life empty of meaning and a soul-emptying job. But when he encounters a mysterious voice at work an uncanny journey ensues in which the lines between his reality and fantasy, past and present, dream and nightmare begin to blur.
$18, $13 mbrs.
Paul Laurence Dunbar: Beyond the Mask explores the life of the first nationally renowned African American writer, known for poems like “We Wear the Mask” and “Sympathy.” Highlighting his literary legacy and activism against Jim Crow laws, the film features Maya Angelou and examines Dunbar’s complex navigation of race and art during the turn of the century.
Daniel Callahan is a multimedia artist, filmmaker and designer. Merging a legion of disciplines including painting, digital photography, film, music, writing and performance, Daniel works to craft immersive experiences incorporating story, ritual, and the human form to explore aspects of resilience and mysticism. Read more →
Frederick Lewis, a writer, director, and professor at Ohio University’s School of Media Arts & Studies, creates award-winning documentaries featured on PBS and screened at venues like the National Gallery of Art. A Presidential Teacher Award recipient, he’s taught globally, including as a Fulbright Specialist in Hungary. Read more →
Andrea Lyman is honored to be invited to represent ROXFILM Festival at The Studios of Key West “Riff on ROXFILM”. Andrea on the board of Roxbury International Film Festival (RoxFilm Festival). She is currently the New England Local President of SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild-American Federation Of Television and Radio Artists), a co-director of the Actors Forum of The Secret Society Of Black Creatives and on the Executive Board of the Greater Boston Labor Council. She plays the Leah, the mother, in Daniel Callahan’s award winning film COME ON IN which premiered at RoxFilm Festival. She has enjoyed appearing in several films over the years at RoxFilm Festival and is in a few films that have been submitted for consideration in the upcoming RoxFilmFestival in June 20-July 2, 2025. She can be seen in films currently touring the film festival circuit such as UGLY SWEATER which is scheduled for its first LA screening at the Pan-African Film Festival and the horror film, CROOKED FINGER and romcom PLUS 1’S (premiered at RoxFilm Festival). Andrea has played real life characters in the historical docudrama films HALF THE HISTORY: ELLEN GARRISON: AN ACTIVIST’S STORY playing Ellen Garrison (she also plays Ellen Garrison in a special film created for the upcoming 250th celebration of Concord, MA) and in NEGRO ELECTION DAY playing the Phyllis wife of the King. Andrea truly loves singing and performed in the Boston stage productions of MOMOLOGUES: THE MUSICAL. She performs her one woman musical show BROADWAY LADY. Andrea has performed in Radio City Music Hall’s CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR, ION-TV’s A SNOW WHITE CHRISTMAS.
ROXFILM is a multiple award-winning festival in the heart of Boston, MA. The festival, now in its 27th year, showcases films that celebrate and elevate stories of people of color around the world. The festival is a celebration of creativity and a testament to the power of storytelling, offering a platform for filmmakers to showcase their extraordinary talents and bring us stories that educate, entertain, and move us into action. The festival provides a platform for both emerging and seasoned filmmakers and is a center of cinematic excellence bridging cultures, and uniting individuals from all walks of life using the universal language of film. ROXFILM’s focus continues to be sharing stories so often not covered in the mainstream and even alternative media spaces. Through screenings, conversations, workshops, and hangouts, ROXFILM reminds us that film has the power to inspire us and build connections that go beyond cultural barriers.
Electric Blue Yonder, in partnership with Bravo Children’s Theatre, and Irie Monte’s Southernmost Youth Orchestra present an interactive live experience celebrating creativity and a love of learning. This unique performance fuses acting, live music, puppetry, and dance as it invites young explorers and their families to embark on a whimsical journey through a universe of unlimited imagination.
sponsored by Key TV
$65 VIP, $30 general admission
The Studios is proud to host the annual Anne McKee Auction now celebrating its 31st year. The Anne McKee Artists Fund supports an array of visual, literary & performance artists whose creative contribution adds to the quality of life throughout the Florida Keys. Join us as one of the most popular art events of the year returns! Proceeds fund grants exclusively benefiting Keys artists.
image: Martha dePoo, 2023 auction
South Carolina, 1999. A mother tamps down her fury at the president while her daughter vies to win a speech contest. Over the course of a morning, trapped by a flood, Wilma and Tally contend with mass media, each other, and the most brutal stages of life, as radioactive secrets are pushed into the light.
Executive Producer of First Look: Jeffrey Johnson
Made possible with support from Jeffrey Johnson and Hy Conrad, Frances McKenzie, and Harrell Odom and Barry Cook
Abby Rosebrock (Playwright) is a Brooklyn-based screenwriter, playwright and actress from South Carolina. Her original plays have been commissioned and produced throughout New York City, in Los Angeles and across the country. Full-length works include Wilma (commissioned by Manhattan Theatre Club), Blue Ridge (Atlantic Theater), Dido of Idaho (Ensemble Studio Theatre; Echo Theatre Company – LATB Award for Best Writing), Singles in Agriculture (The Brick, Aurora Theatre) and Different Animals (Cherry Lane). A proud alum of writing groups at Clubbed Thumb, The Orchard Project and Ensemble Studio Theatre.
Travis LeMont Ballenger (Director) is a producer, writer, dramaturg and creative director. His Broadway producing credits include MJ and Almost Famous. He has held executive producing/artistic directing positions at theaters around the country including Arena Stage, The Old Globe, Dallas Theater Center, Hip-Hop Theater Festival, and more. He developed work with several artists, including: Katori Hall, Lynn Nottage, Pearl Cleage, Lydia R. Diamond, and Radha Blank. He is a Partner at Spoke Media where he oversees their slate of podcasts, film, tv, documentaries, and theatre.
Naia Kearins lives in the Bahama Village neighborhood of Key West with her dad and older brother Kristian. She attends Sigsbee Charter School where she is in 7th grade and loves English and Civics class. Naia has also been involved in a number of Key West’s youth theater productions over the years including shows with Bravo Theater, Fringe Theater, and The Studios of Key West with recent leading roles in The Addams Family and Zombie Prom. While many people think she looks like her dad, it was from her late mother, Dorthe — a long-time creative force on the island — that Naia gets all of her on-stage charm.
Three generations of Jewish women from a close and complicated family arrive in Vienna for an award celebration. In this touching and often comic play about forgiveness and survivor guilt, the indelible characters wrestle with the past, argue about the present and reimagine their futures while searching for their stolen apartment, reading Chekhov and eating amazing chocolate cake.
Executive Producer of First Look: Jeffrey Johnson
Made possible with support from Jeffrey Johnson and Hy Conrad, Frances McKenzie, and Harrell Odom and Barry Cook
CAREY PERLOFF (Playwright) is a director, playwright, producer and educator who served as Artistic Director of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco from 1992-2018. Current directing projects: Leopoldstadt (Huntington and STC), Waste (Marin Theatre), The Oedipus Project (Red Bull Theater, NYC), Iphigenia in Tauris (Legion of Honor, SF). Recent directing: As You Like It (Santa Cruz Shakespeare), The Lehman Trilogy (Huntington and Repertory Theater of St. Louis), Hend Ayoub’s Home? (Voices Festival Productions, D.C.), Ibsen’s Ghosts (Seattle Rep and Williamstown), Pale Fire by Colm Toibin (Gate Theatre, Dublin), Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare Company, Calgary), and A Thousand Splendid Suns at Arena Stage.
RON LAGOMARSINO (Director) most recently directed Mark St. Germain’s The Happiest Man on Earth at Southwark Playhouse in London (Offie Award nominations for Best Production and Solo Performance). Previously he had staged its world premiere at Barrington Stage Company in Massachusetts (multiple Berkshire Theater Critics Awards, including Best Director; Broadway World Award). He directed the premiere of Joseph Dougherty’s Chester Bailey at A.C.T. in San Francisco, and subsequently at Irish Repertory Theater in New York (Outer Critics Award nomination for Outstanding Play), following its acclaimed run at BSC (NY Times Critics Pick; multiple BTC Awards, including Best Director). He also staged the world premieres of Alfred Uhry’s Driving Miss Daisy (Drama Desk Award nomination, Pulitzer Prize) and The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Tony Award for Best Play, Pulitzer Finalist). The national tour of Daisy (Helen Hayes nomination) starred Julie Harris, and Dame Wendy Hiller led the West End cast. For his productions of Daisy and Christopher Durang’s Laughing Wild, he received the Outer Critics Circle Award. Other premieres include works by John Patrick Shanley, Beth Henley, Jane Anderson (Ovation nomination for Looking for Normal), and Joseph Dougherty’s Digby (Drama Desk nomination). On Broadway he also directed the Joseph Dougherty/Lynn Ahrens/Stephen Flaherty musical My Favorite Year. His own play Jerome was a Finalist at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. His extensive television credits include the pilots of David E. Kelley’s Emmy-winning Picket Fences (Directors Guild of America Award), and Homefront (Emmy Award nomination). Favorite episodic work includes thirtysomething, My So-Called Life, Ally McBeal, and Pretty Little Liars. Movies for TV include the Hallmark Hall of Fame My Sister’s Keeper,starring Kathy Bates and Lynn Redgrave (National Association for Mental Illness Media Award for Direction). The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Ron has served as Resident Director of Hartford Stage Company. A native San Franciscan, he is a graduate of Santa Clara University (valedictorian) and New York University School of the Arts.
When Marco meets Marco, an unlikely friendship begins between two boys with the same name but different personalities and outlooks on life. When they discover a mutual love of comic books, the local comic store becomes a sanctuary for both boys as they’re introduced to the Aztec superhero who becomes their guide.
Executive Producer of First Look: Jeffrey Johnson
Made possible with support from Jeffrey Johnson and Hy Conrad, Frances McKenzie, Jean Carper, and Harrell Odom and Barry Cook
TONY MENESES (Playwright) was born in Guadalajara, Mexico and raised in Albuquerque and Dallas. His plays include Guadalupe in the Guest Room, twenty50, The Hombres, El Borracho, and A Thousand Maids. He is an alum of the Soho Rep. Writer/Director Lab, Ars Nova Play Group, Sundance Institute Playwrights Retreat at Ucross Foundation, The Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship, and Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Youngblood; his work has been previously developed at the Lark Playwrights’ Week, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, The Denver Center’s Colorado New Play Summi and more.
JERRY RUIZ (Director) recent directing credits include the world premieres of Cebollas by Leonard Madrid at Denver Center for the Performing Arts and She Was Here by Raul Garza at Austin Playhouse. Prior directing credits include off-Broadway productions at Primary Stages, Second Stage Theatre, Rattlestick Theater, Mint Theater Company, Clubbed Thumb, SummerStage, and Repertorio Español, as well as regional productions at Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Old Globe Theatre, Alley Theatre, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Zach Theatre, Stages Houston, Profile Theatre, TheatreWorks Hartford, Mixed Blood Theatre, San Pedro Playhouse, and Chalk Rep. He is currently an Associate Professor of Theatre Directing in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre at Arizona State University. M.F.A.: UC San Diego, B.A.:Harvard University. Member: SDC.
MATTHEW MARTINEZ (Marco) HTX native. NYC enthusiast. ATL resident. @matthewmartinez.ig on Instagram.
BEN UBIÑAS (Marco B) is a Los Angeles based actor and writer. After studying at the Lee Strasberg Institute and Harvard College, he worked in the theater scene in pre-pandemic New York before moving to LA to pursue film. Ben is thrilled to be working with The Studios of Key West for the first time! Off Broadway: Hazing U TV: Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, Matlock.
FRANKIE ALVAREZ (Alfonso) is an actor/writer from Miami, FL. He is best known as the passionate Agustín on HBO’s critically-acclaimed series Looking and its companion Looking: The Movie. Film: Rockaway (dir. John J. Budion), Vandal (dir. JD Freixas), The Drummer (dir. Eric Werthman). TV (selected): The Blacklist, Let the Right One In, Fantasy Island, New Amsterdam, Law & Order: SVU, The Brides (pilot), The Good Wife, Blindspot, Controversy (pilot), Madam Secretary, Smash.
CODY BORAH (Glenn) is an Atlanta-based performer. Originally from Alexandria, Minnesota, he majored in Theatre Arts at the University of Minnesota. His previous roles in Key West include The Lifespan of a Fact, Dear Jack, Dear Louise, and Short Attention Span Theatre at the Red Barn Theatre, Hand to God and Red Speedo at the Waterfront Playhouse, as well as The Pickpocket’s Daughter at The Studios of Key West.
In the wake of a failed marriage, Joanne Marlowe returns to an old dream, to write a great, popular novel. After falling in love with a book publisher, she submits her manuscript under an assumed name, hoping not to complicate their relationship. That’s when things get complicated, with Joanne trying to be two people at once, herself and a mysterious author named Natasha. A smart romcom, set in the competitive world of New York publishing.
Executive Producer of First Look: Jeffrey Johnson
Made possible with support from Jeffrey Johnson and Hy Conrad, Frances McKenzie, and Harrell Odom and Barry Cook
HY CONRAD (Playwright) has made a career out of murder, earning the 2022 Independent Press Award for Best Mystery (The Fixer’s Daughter), 2021 and 2022 NYC Big Book Awards for Best Mystery (The Fixer’s Daughter, Sins of the Family), a Scribe Award for Best Novel (Mr. Monk Helps Himself) and three Edgar nominations from the Mystery Writers of America. Hy is best known for his eight seasons as writer/co-executive producer for the ground-breaking TV series, Monk.
Although acting and directing has always been his first love, JEFF JOHNSON (Director) made his career in advertising, helping to create some of the world’s most successful campaigns (including Volvo, Ford, Corona, Nikon and Publix). In Key West, Jeff has appeared at the Red Barn in Cats Talk Back directed by Joy Hawkins. At The Studios of Key West, he portrayed Vieux in The Traveling Companion and Mr. Taske in Lifeboat Drill, both by Tennessee Williams and directed by Stephen Kitsakos.
ALLY FARZETTA (Joanne) is a professional actor, theatre maker, and educator. She currently serves as Assistant Director of MFA Theatre at Randolph College in Lynchburg, VA. Most recently Ally appeared in American Shakespeare Center’s A Christmas Carol as Mrs. Cratchit. Other regional credits include Measure For Measure (Shakespeare and Company), Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberley (Virginia Rep), Sense and Sensibility (Virginia Stage).
BRITT MICHAEL GORDON (Henry) Regional credits include: Ross in Macbeth, Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest; and Fenton/Slender/Dr. Caius in The Merry Wives of Windsor (American Shakespeare Center); Jeff in Lobby Hero and Valentine in Arcadia (Palm Beach Dramaworks); Mr. Darcy in Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Virginia Repertory Theatre); Casey in The Legend of Georgia McBride (Florida Studio Theatre); Arthur in Camelot (Actors Playhouse).
ZACHARY FRANCINI (Mitch) moved to Key West in 2019, starring in the one-man musical DIVA: Live From Hell with Fringe Theater in 2021. At the Waterfront Playhouse, he puppeteered the Audrey II plant body in Little Shop of Horrors, and played as Franz in Rock of Ages, an angel in Kinky Boots, Mr. Body/Police Chief inCLUE,and the Dialect Coach/Sid Philips in Singin’ In The Rain. Next, he will play Francis inLa Cage Aux Folles, and later this Spring he’ll join the Red Barn Theater’sShort Attention Span Theatre. Zach is excited to work with the Studios once more after reading as Jason in the new musical The Papers last season.
MARJORIE PAUL-SHOOK (Arlene) has been happily tripping the light fantastic on all the Key West stages for many, many, MANY years. Trained in her youth in all the theatre arts, Marjorie eventually joined the cast of Beach Blanket Babylon, San Francisco’s iconic musical revue. Since locating in Key West she has not stopped working, playing leading roles in such shows as Sweet Charity and South Pacific at TWFAC.
ERIN MCKENNA (Kristen) is originally from Long Island, New York. Erin was recently seen in Bombshells at Williams Hall. Erin has been in numerous productions at The Red Barn including: Hurricane Diane, Cry it Out, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Venus in Fur, and Short Attention Span Theatre. She has appeared at the Waterfront Playhouse in 39 Steps, Noises Off, Die Mommie, Die!, Around The World in 80 Days, and Clue.
MATHIAS MALOFF (Brad and others) is a graduate from Columbia College of Chicago with a B.A. in theater acting. Mathias is honored to be returning to TSKW, last time was in 2018 for Conch Republic the Musical: Revisited. More recently, you may have seen him in Into the Woods at the Waterfront Playhouse. Mathias would like to thank his wife Cassidy, Family and Friends for their undying love and support.
CASSIDY TIMMS (Beth and others) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting at Texas State University in 2017. You may have seen her most recently at the Red Barn Theatre as Catherine in The Foreigner or as Shedevil in Flaming Guns of the Purple Sage. She also recently played The Countess at the Waterfront Playhouse in Murder on the Orient Express, or you may remember her as Matzy Moses at The Studios of Key West in The Pickpocket’s Daughter.
JAMES DARRAH (Production Stage Manager) Some credits: Broadway: The Piano Lesson, Hedda Gabler, Boeing Boeing, Little Women, Avenue Q; New York Philharmonic; six seasons at The Metropolitan Opera; Tribeca Film Festival; Super Bowl XLVIII; Carnegie Hall, and various corporate and industrial events. Currently James is PSM for, Kathleen Turner: Finding My Voice. As a performer: Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Not-Broadway, touring, regional, stock credits, Radio City Music Hall, Carnegie Hall…James is a former Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus-Clown.
$250 VIP table for four, $55, $45 mbrs.
$250 VIP table for four, $55, $45 mbrs.
They’re back for the ultimate rematch! After last year’s showdown ended in a devastating tie, Broadway’s dueling pianists/singers Adam LaSalle & Paul Rigano are settling the score. From the biggest hits of the ’70s and ’80s to your favorite show tunes, it’s a high-energy musical battle of words, wit, and talent to claim the title of reigning champ.
sponsored by Fausto’s Food Palace
$500 VIP table for four, $65, $55 mbrs.
$500 VIP table for four, $65, $55 mbrs.
One word most wonderfully describes this extraordinary evening featuring two of the cabaret world’s leading singers and songwriters: Divalicious. Music divas Amanda McBroom and Ann Hampton Callaway celebrate classics from the Great American Songbook and also their own works. Musical Director and acclaimed songwriter Michele Brourman accompanies the duo in this stunning show of song and storytelling.
Amanda McBroom is described by Broadway World as “… one of the greatest nightclub performers of all time. Her lyrics are profound and express human emotions in glorious poetry. Her humor is so smart and she sings and acts it all brilliantly.” She first came to the attention of music lovers when Bette Midler’s version of Amanda’s song “The Rose” hit number one all over the world.
A writer for the New York Times wrote of Ann Hampton Callaway, “For sheer vocal beauty, no contemporary singer matches Ms. Callaway.” Callaway is one of the leading champions of the Great American Songbook, having made her mark as a singer, pianist, composer, lyricist, arranger, actress, educator, TV host and producer. Voted recently by Broadway World as “Performer of the Year” and “Best Jazz Vocalist.” Her latest record “Finding Beauty, Originals Vol. 1 debuted at #1 on the Billboard Jazz Chart.
Best known for her song “My Favorite Year” Michele Brourman is “a consummate artist/composer…. whose songs target the human condition with a simplicity, honesty and directness which make them into contemporary classics.” She enjoys a wide- ranging career as a singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and music producer whose songs have been recorded by artists ranging from Reba McEntyre to Olivia Newton- John. She’s played with Bernadette Peters and Bob Dylan, and composed the scores for movies including the recent multi-award-winning “Show Her the Money.” Her 50 year collaboration with Amanda McBroom has produced countless classics including the music for 20 animated features for Universal Studios and most recently the end credit song for Jessica Lange’s tour-de-force “The Great Lillian Hall”.
sponsored by Assortment, Inc.